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Last week, on We, the People, Sanka Coffee's Tuesday-night odditorium of the air, Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis and his freak-style opponent of last fortnight, Arturo Godoy from Chile, faced each other anew. Joe said fighting Godoy had been just like "sittin' in a big easy chair, restin'." Arturo boasted that after "the fight he still had enough left to step-'but with his wife and "just go do little rumba." Back home, said Godoy to Joe and his radio audience (about 7,000,000), he had big brothers, "good fighters...
...14th round the Chilean was still on his feet, and the 16,000 spectators were cheering him wildly. Exhilarated, Godoy put on a performance as bizarre as any thing ever seen in a first-class prize ring. Deliberately tormenting Louis, he jumped up & down like a boy playing squat tag, grimaced & grinned and finally, after doing a few mock rumba steps, threw his arms around the champion and kissed him on both cheeks. A few moments later, when Louis was awarded the decision, Godoy hugged him again & again...
When he arrived in New York from his native Chile three months ago, Arturo Godoy was scarcely noticed by U. S. sportswriters. They remembered that he lad visited the U. S. twice before (in 1933 and 1937), that his greatest feat had been outroughing Tony Galento in a six-round preliminary bout on the Braddock-Louis championship card in June 1937. That he would not last four rounds against the Brown Bomber was the general prediction. Some openly complained that he had no right in the same ring with Louis, that his best punch could hardly knock down...
Tommy Farr had tried them. So had Tony Galento. But Godoy, besides keeping out of range of Louis' punches, managed to get in a few sound thumps himself...
Meanwhile Godoy, only challenger be sides Tommy Farr to last 15 rounds against Louis, demanded a return fight for the championship next June...